Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Navy Yard will soon become home to the much-loved grocery store Wegmans.
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After years of disputes over whether to save the Civil-war era homes in Admiral’s Row on Flushing Avenue or redevelop the land, buildings will be knocked down to make room for the Rochester-based store, along with other stores, industrial space and parking after the Navy Yard’s board approved a redevelopment deal Tuesday, reports the New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1G6lv8H).
The complex, set to open in 2017, will be developed by Steiner NYC, creator of the Navy Yard’s 25-acre film studio. Wegmans will be part of a larger building with 126,000 square feet of industrial space. A four-story parking garage to be used by Wegmans and Nave Yard tenants will be built across Sands Street.
Steiner will pay for estimated cost of $140 million for the construction and will collect rent from the businesses there. Steiner has a 96-year lease paying the Navy Yard “above market rents” according to David Ehrenberg, president of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation.
Wegmans was selected because of the store’s affordability and its promise to hire locally for full-time jobs. The chain offered to create 600 total jobs, more than any of its competitors, and will interview exclusively from three housing projects bordering the new site within the first two weeks of hiring.
Founded in 1916, Wegmans has 85 stores located in the Great Lakes region and the Washington Beltway, and was ranked by Forbes on its top 10 employers in the country.
I heard they are going to cater to the heimishe community.
Do the accept link card?
Could be competition with Costco…..